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The R.A.F.

LET US take a look at this Royal Air Portes whose "paper ballets" dropped over a wide aren in Ger- muny will have a more devastating effect on the Hither regime thru all the bombs if is capable of hurling

German beads.

ion:

How does it stand now in men machine 7 The answer will

Dentoeraziva. on rage thes

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fons inve every reason to take com- fort in our air strength.

From 1935 to early 1937 Ger- mat Bombers were superior to thase of the R.A.F, in speed, range and bomb load. To-day Britain's) latest aircraft surpass the corres- ponding German types in both flying range and bomb load.

The speeds of the two are said

to be about the game, but the operational value of the British machine is far superior.

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with bombs, is 3,240 miles;

September 7, 1939.

It Means a Lot to be

FIRST LORD

Mr. Winston Churchill is the new First Lord of the Admiralty. He will get £5,000 a year with luxurious house). The magnificent Admiralty yacht, the Enchantress, will be at his disposal.

He Gets

the most distinctive re- sidence in London-

a yacht which a millionaire might envy-

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his own wireless station,

The salary probably seems attractive to you, but a good First Lord earns and spends every penny of it. He is the representative of the Navy in Parliament, res- ponsible for the direction and supervision of all naval matters, with power to promote and discharge, recom- mend honours and awards,

He is very much of the Boss of the British Navy. His responsibility is so great that he has a little Cabinet of his own, the Board of Admiralty, to advise and direct him. Though he is not compelled to take the Board's advice-he usually does. On the Board sit Bri- tain's Sen Lords-first, second, third, fourth, and the recently appointed fifth-the big executives of the Navy.

Even in the Cabinet his position is enviable. is one of the most powerful of Ministers.

In Room 40

he

The house that goes with the job is a much finer place than either No. 10 or No. 11, Downing-street. It stands at the south-east corner of the Admiralty bulld- ing in Whitehall. Ita rooms are spacious and beauti- fully furnished. The drawing-room has unique furni- ture-chairs, tables, couches with legs and arms carved in the shape of dolphins. Lord Nelson's body once rested there.

A connecting door links the house with the Ad- miralty itself. The First Lord has access to every room in this, London's most exciting building. There is Room 40, for instance, the eyes and ears' of the world.

Here cipher wireless messages, intercepted from the enemy, were decoded during the war. To-day the Ad- mirally's most trusted and talented men sit there, linked by ratio with the ships and ports of the seven seas, Messages, secret and confidential. pass through their hans. They are just a few of the First Lord's 4,000 staff.

There is the super Admiralty library, too, if the First, Lord feels like reading. Not ordinary reading, though. A hundred thousand books and documents giving details of almost every naval engagement ever fought. Charts and maps and lans to bewilder you.

His Yacht

And if you want to get away from the stuffy air of Whitehall there is the yacht already mentioned. It is a a long-standing tradition that the First Lord is free to use the yacht as he wishes in the performance of his duties.

The Exchantress is finer than any rich man's ship. It is the Admiralty afloat, equipped, as the cinema pos- ters say, "regardless of expense."

There are dinners. The First Lord has a busy job. banquets, luncheons to preside at, speeches to make and naval manoeuvres to attend. There are admirala to interview and inventions to be considered. There is the all-important question of thệ £ a d of running the Navy. And, finally, there is the task of telling Parliament and, through Parliament, the people all about it.

Members delight in asking dificult questions about the Navy The First Lord has to answer them.

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25 Years Ago

At The Gates Of Paris

Anniversary Of The Marne

It was on the morning of Sunday, September 6, 1914, that Parks knew that something had happened which. would decide the fate of the war.

For three days von Kluck's Army had been within striking distance of the capital; for three days we had waited for the sound of gunfire from the forts, signifying that the attack had begun. And now it was not coming it was quite clear that it was not coming. Gallient's briet communique, collected late on Satur day night from the Press Burenu in the Rue de Grenelle, hod follows:-

run SIA

The German Army is all moving away from Paris and continuing the movement entered on two days ago, It follows from the information re- ceived that the enemy's troops have evacuated the Compiegne-Senlis dia. trict.

We had known nothing about the movement away from Parls, but that made the news all the more decisive. Something had happened. The Ger- man Army, which a week before had been in full march through Com- piegne and Senlis for the gates of Paris, had found something to take it elsewhere. "Ah," said the street Kossina. "nous verrons, nous verrons, bientot quelque chose."

Turls in those days lay as though hypnotized. The terrible reality of

The

invasion had come upon it so swiftly as to be almost unrealizable. The writer, then a member of the Paris stuff of The Times, had left France about August 20 for a short veit to England." Fighting on the Belgian frontier was then still con- fined to skirmishes. The name Mons was

A short ten still unfamiliar.

WOR

days later, on Sunday, August 30, he returned to France,

་ ་ ་་་་་ The train from Boulogne was four hours late is starting and the chef de pare would not guarantee that it would get to Paris. Before it had reached

it Abbeville crowded to root and doorstep with refugees from Belgium, from Lille. f every town in the Pas-de-Calais, soldiers and civilians together. fook-19 hours to reach Paris. were gathered at everossing

station and level

through

Normandy to ask for news from the north as the train rolled slowly by. All through the night, at one junction after another, we were held up to let trop-train after troop-tzun pass, all moving south,

bib.

ing.

In Paris everything was in a hub- Everybody seemed to be leave. The railway stations at the Qunt d'Orsay and Montparnasse were ed with helpless crowds.

#truggling for places in the trains. People poured un to the river

left steners, und without knowing where they would Eet to. I was swelteringly hot. No one knew where the Germans were.

them

nt The official news placed

from seen

Noyon, but a chance acquaintance who had come that morning Complegne testified

to having British sappers blow up the stone bridge over the Oise. That meant that the retreat was still in progress, and Complegne was only 30 miles away.

a troops.

some

in

The Wellington la

THE FIRST DOMES On the following day, about efficient two-engined bomber in the

of the troops (Inckdentally, in many

effect) was ao'clock, a German aeroplane appeared E actively busy collecting, noting. Sir Michael Bruces it had this erect but wove over the city and dropped world to-day. Filled with petrol in place of bombs it could fly non-stop the country in which they are emnly useful to know, for instance, that and appraising facts of value about

bomba. It was Parla's first experience ments of troops in France.

of bombardment, and it made DO from England to Australia. Theployed.

What

happened Captain XXX, who is in charge of

The bombs were this. A great impression.

3- range of the first model, loaded What can be the use of these facts transport at a port, is a secret drug young ofleer, either home on leave obviously not much bigger than

the or recovering from a wound usually pounder shells, and did little damage. war be declared? And is taker, or that Major YYY ot its should

End, and many Next morning early the street rang this work necessary among countries War Office gambles heavily and is drift to the West

There is always on lived for exellement

during their to the Regiment after regiment of tramp of matching 12 to 588 metres | speed 265 miles an hour.

that are allies, tied with the closest deeply in debt.

was easy to suggest through his leave. It approach to a person But warplanes in R.A.F. squa- bands of friendship?

A few African tirailleurs, Senegalese, and The answer to the first question weaknesses. It is the collecting of marvellous headache cure.

absolute know this type of knowledge that becomes doses, and the boy began to find ho Chausseurs

curs d'Afrique, were moving drons are only the forerunners of is-naturally, the

wanted this cure more frequently, out to the north. It was the Tunis country is extremely use- so important. still belter ones which are already ledge of

These boys were picked from different division which had been rushed ful in the case of invasion. Not Before

up the war. the German regiments and brigades. Later, bethe day before by roll from Mar- appearing in very large numbers. only the details that can be found

thousands but those of Secret Service had ordnance maps, The disclosed performances of on

and the men employed as waiters and bar-gey returned to France, the scilles. This looked like a change crops, supplies, timber, British bombers at present are of thousand

men oli over the world, thousands of agent told them that they could pro-tactics. The men were in splendid and one details that an

know. women working as governesses and cute these "eures" if they wrote to condition and gave promise of hard him telling him exactly where nghting: but there was a fresh Burm most hazardous companions. These people saw, and

stationed and where prise

prise to come. Inside Paris there going,

had were na about each

1,000

were no morning newspapers to be horse-power. parts of a spy's work is the obtain-collected for more useful knowledge

n friend In France who would had. The Government had left the More powerful engines are in the ing of the codes used by various than the man who wandered about they

Ilic bring

"cures countries. These are sent to skilled the countryside with a camera and

line. day before for Bordeaux. Everything were allowed to censor in the way of an authority that was new types of machines. The exira oficials who are trained in the art sketch book.

Let us suppose that A., a

Jurge Officers of decoding. Even spies usually use Le

their own letters, and

only a not military had gone with them. power is being applied to the carry codes, and against them there is al- manufacturing country, la likely at

to war with B., a very small proportion of them were The Allied Embassies and all news- ing of heavier loads of bomb at

On the ways working the "counter-espion-any time to go suge,' us important a branch of a country that relies on its agriculture opened at the base. The result wus paper offices were closed. faster speeds.

for its wealth. A will naturally that, in the case of any large move-walls was posted the first proclama- country's service as that of Intelli-

want to know, besides the essentials ment of troops or a big concentration of General Gallieni:

I have been entrusted with the tlon, it was easy to forecast where genre itself.

of the strength of B's forces, the an attack was to be launched, and task of defending Paris from the in- Spying has another role in timea depots for coal, fuel, and the main to make a pretty good guess at the vnder. That task I shall full to the of peace, that is the knowledge of

sources of supply; the exact amount how

probable

So there was to be a alego, enemy, even an allled country, cant of munitions stored and being or number of divisions and units taken

should the boy become 50 Later turn her factories, workshops, and capable of being manufactured; and

Paris now became a curious place. resources into those supplying muni- the routes by which raw material addicted to the drug that he would Over a million of its inhabitants, and tlons of war. Here is the real work will be brought into the country.

This knowledge will have to be

anything

to obtain it, a slight they the best-to-do, had left.

often put upon him boulevards and In order pressure was

the fashionable of the spy. The photographing of Precise official information on troops, nying grounds, and barracks gained in days of peace,

tool in the enemy's hands. Luckily You could took down the Avenuo de this is, for obvious reasons, not be is work given to the beginner to test that A's forces can commence their and he actually became an unwitting streets in the centre were deserted. neriai or even secret sabotage ing provided to the world, but there him out. The only value this can has been a tremendous speed-up of is the fore-knowledge of the amount against B's ports and depois as soon the organisation that was responsi l'Opera at midday, and not count *.

discovered and squashed at a very of vehicles.

han a couple new construction during the past of machines which could be massed us wat commences. 3 will likewise ble for this branch of activity was dozen of midday, and not

be man want to know the food supplies to early stage, not before they Cafe de la Paix and Tourtel's were and equipped at these

and the amount of food she is cap brought about the death of several twelve months.

times of emergency.

able of storing. These factors will

boys who, rather than betray their empty. The famous restaurants had be D's weak points.

Interesting to remember that Own country, had taken their lives hardly a single dinerals of the season had just begun ployed on "The Black Book” contract firms were making aircraft. Perhaps the most sinister of all n ome of the most concentrated work in their own hands. The number to-day is almost cer- spy's work and the work calling for done by aples during the war, was tainly greater. The joint Anglo- the most brains- combined with a not in the belligerent countries, as work like moles, underground, tun-wit counter ut Prunier's, and there French aircraft construction ex- complete knowledge of humanity, a might be imagined, but in America, nelling, destroying or weakening the way body to eat them.

section which is employed to Sweden, Holland, ceeded the German output as long tie

and Denmark strength of their opponents. They

Munte, except the ago as June. It was boasted then find out and exploit the weaknesses These countries were the sources ad face trial, imprisonment, and death in at night there was not a. Boul

for their own countries, knowing the

Meanwhile, in opponents' ranks.

supply to the combatants, and it was that should they be discovered none the life of the humbler classes went that, at any time, British and

Years ago there was a great libel of vital importance for either side French output of new machines

Ilko life of price of fallure is shame. They pose of a great city. Every one gossiped a village than could, at instant notice, double that case in which the words "The Black to know of what material the other will help them. They fail and the on quietly and normally, but it was

Book" occurred very frequently. It side was running short.

ceed-and only they and of German factories.

with

In the absence was stated that the Germans had a Drugs for Young Officera

directly above them ever hear of

every one else. of newspapers,

greengrocer and British aircraft output last June book giving the naines of nearly

At the beginning of the last war their success.

the milkman, who were

in daily no honours 1,000 planes a month. Less every important and public person

No rewards, than three years ago it was at the in Britain, and against these names a large amount of drugs was being

re-imported Into Britain. These were their way. Only the knowledge that touch with people from outside, be- rate of only about 400 in 12 months. marks on their characters.

their habits, vices, and

handed to agents who, using still they have served their country as came the chief sources of news.

After the fearful flurry of the part It is a disheartening schlove

There is no doubt that some sort further agents, passed them on to well as and perhaps even better than low days, with the bulletins from the

PLEASE Turn To Page. ment from the German point of of book does exist in every coun- young officers. This was not done another one who vlow,

try's records. It would be extreme- with any idea of reducing the moralei captured a elladel.

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